Clutch device
AssigneeSchaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
InventorBjoern STEHLE
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Abstract
A clutch device, which has at least one clutch, which can assume an open operating state and a closed operating state, in which a torque can be transmitted by the clutch, an actuator device for activating the clutch, and a sensor device, which has a motion sensor. In order to simplify the actuation strategy of the clutch device, the sensor device has an additional sensor, which detects whether the actuator device is in or near an actuator end position in which the clutch is in the open operating state thereof.
Claims11
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A clutch device, comprising:
- at least one clutch, which can assume an open operating state and a closed operating state and which can transmit a torque;
- an actuator device for actuating the clutch;
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- a sensor device having a movement sensor and an additional sensor, the additional sensor detecting whether the actuator device is situated in or near an actuator end position in which the clutch is in the open operating state.
A method for actuating and/or operating a clutch device that comprises at least one clutch, which can assume an open operating state and a closed operating state and which can transmit a torque, an actuator device for actuating the clutch, and a sensor device having a movement sensor and an additional sensor, the method comprising the following method step:
- detecting, by using the additional sensor, whether the actuator device is situated in or near an actuator end position in which the clutch is in the open operating state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.